The Impersonal Life · 16 of 19

XV. Masters

You, who are still holding to the idea, taught in various teachings, that I will provide a “Master” or Divine Teacher for each aspirant towards union with Me, hear My Words.

It is true I have permitted you in the past to delve into all kinds of mystical and occult books and teachings, encouraging your secret desire to acquire the powers necessary to attain this union extolled in such teachings, even to the extent of quickening in you some slight consciousness of the possession of such powers.

I have even permitted the belief that by practicing certain exercises, breathing in a certain way, and saying certain mantrams, you might attract to you a “Master” from the unseen, who would become your teacher and help you to prepare for certain initiations that would admit you into an advanced Degree, in some secret Order in the inner planes of existence, where much of My Divine Wisdom would be opened up to you.

I have not only permitted these things, but, if you can see it, it was I who led you to these books, inspired in you such desire, and caused such belief to find lodgment in your mind;— but not for the purpose you imagine.

Yes, I have brought you thru all these teachings, desires and beliefs, trying to point out to your human mind the Forces I use to bring into expression My Divine Idea.

I have portrayed these Forces as heavenly Hierarchies, and that your human intellect might the better comprehend, I pictured them as Angels or Divine Beings, Impersonal agents or executors of My Will, engaged in the process of bringing into expression My Idea that was in the beginning.

But you did not understand.

Your human intellect, enamored of the possibility of meeting and communing with one of these Beings, as claimed in some of the teachings, proceeded at once to personalize Them, and began to long for Their appearance in your life, imagining that They are interested in your human affairs, and that by living in accordance with certain rules set down in certain teachings, you could propitiate Them so They would help you to gain Nirvana or Immortality.

Now I have purposely permitted you to indulge yourself with such delusions, letting you long, and pray, and strive earnestly to obey all the instructions given; even leading you on, sometimes, by giving you glimpses, in self-induced visions and dreams, of ideal beings, which I permitted you to believe were such “Masters.”

I may even have caused to open in you certain faculties, which make it possible for you to sense the presence of personalities that have passed into the spirit side of life, and who have been attracted by your desires and seek to fulfill the part of Master and Guide to you.

But now the time has come for you to know that such beings are not Masters, also that Divine beings are not Masters; that I, and I alone, your own Real Self, AM the only Master for you;—

That any being, either in human or spirit form, that presents himself to your consciousness and claims to be a Master, or whom your mind assumes to be a Master, is nothing more nor less than a personality, the same as yours, and therefore is not Divine, as your human mind understands that term, despite the many wonderful “truths” he may utter, and the “marvelous” things he may do.

Now, this is a mystery, and until you can comprehend it, you are justified in claiming the above as not consistent with certain statements herein, and as contradicting teachings in My other Revelations.

But fear not; this mystery will be revealed unto you—if you truly wish to know My Meaning.

Until then, why, in your seeking, be satisfied with anything short of the Highest?

Why seek in human or spirit teacher, guide, master or angel, for the necessarily limited manifestation of My Perfection, when you can come direct to Me, God within you, the Omniscient, Omnipotent, Omnipresent, the Inspiring Idea back of and within All manifestations?

As I AM in You, even as I AM in any you seek, and as all the Wisdom, all the Power and all the Love they possess come only from Me, Why not now come to Me, and let Me prepare you also so I can express My All thru You?

Just so long as your human mind seeks or worships the idea of a Master in any other being, no matter how lofty or sacred he may seem to you, just so long will you be fed with such ideas; until, verily, I may, perhaps, permit you to meet and commune with such a “Master.”

But if that “privilege” is vouchsafed you, it will be only in order to hasten your awakening and your consequent disillusionment, when you will learn that “Master” is indeed but a personality, even tho far more advanced in awakening than you, but still a personality—and not the Divine One your innermost Soul is yearning for you to know.

For I feed you with every idea that will operate, to teach you the reality back of the seeming, and if I lead you on to apparent deception and loss of faith in all human teachings, and in all human and even Divine perfection, it is only to enable you the more clearly to distinguish between the substance and the shadow, and to prepare you for that far higher Ideal I am waiting to picture to you. You can rise in your human personality only to the ideal your human mind is capable of conceiving. Thru Desire I cause My Will to manifest in you, and thru Desire I perform many wondrous works.

But you, who have risen above Desire, you who no longer seek a Master or a Teacher, or even Me, but are abiding alone in the faith of My Eternal Presence and Promise,—for you I have in store a meeting and a communion, which will bring to your Soul such joy and blessings as your human mind is incapable of conceiving.

You are a human personality, yet You are Divine and therefore Perfect. The first of these truths you believe, the latter you do not believe.

Yet both are true,—That is the mystery.

You are just what you think You are.

One or the other, which are you?—Or both?

You are One with Me. I AM in You, in Your human personality, in Your body, mind and intellect. I AM in every cell of Your body, in every attribute of Your mind, in every faculty of Your intellect. I AM the Soul, the active principle of each.

And you are in Me. You are a Cell of my Body; You are an Attribute of My Mind; You are a Faculty of My Intellect. You are a part of Me, yet You are I, My Self. We are One, and always have been.

Your human personality is to You, what You are to My Divine Impersonality. They are Our creations, expressions of Our Being.

You are one of My mental Attributes, one of My Divine Powers, one of the Radiations of My Will, which I send forth Impersonally to accomplish My Purpose.

Yes, You are a Divine Being, an Angel of Light, a living Part of Me, which I have willed forth into earthly manifestation in order to express Impersonally My Idea.

Could an Angel, a wholly Impersonal Being, an Attribute of My Will, be interested in human affairs?

No. It only uses your human nature and your human affairs as mediums or avenues thru which My Will can bring into expression My Idea.

And this idea of a Master I brought to your mind’s attention was only to lead you to and prepare you for this Idea of Me, your Impersonal Self, an Angel of Light, the One True Master, within.

As your human mind is constituted, it at certain times thinks it needs a Master, one to whom it can turn with its human trials and problems for explanation and advice, thinking life’s problems can be settled that way. And if I draw to you one who fails you or deceives you and throws you back finally upon Me, your own Self, discouraged, disillusioned and humiliated, it is only that perhaps then you will be ready to turn to Me within, and will listen to My voice, which all these years has been speaking to you, but to which your proud and egoistic mind has not deigned to listen.

You who have not yet had this experience, who have not yet met the Master of your aspirations, either in human or spirit form; you, within whom My Words have failed to awaken a quickening response to their truth,—for you I have in store certain experiences which will surely lead you to Me later on, and then you will be brought to know that I AM the Master, the inspiring Idea back of and within every thought of and every aspiration towards a Master that enters your mind, whether coming from within or without.

If you doubt this, you need only to apply the Key;

To think of a Master is to create one. This idea of a Master, by your thinking, becomes what you desire and imagine a Master to be.

In other words, by your thinking you build around this idea all the qualities you imagine a Master possesses. Your human mind, thru Desire, thru aspiration, thru worship, must needs create these qualities in some imaginary being, who is still a personality, for you cannot as yet conceive of an Impersonal being.

Therefore, according to the intensity of your desire and thinking, must this idea sooner or later come into actual manifestation, either by attracting to you such a personality in the flesh, or one entitized in the realm of visions and dreams.

It is taught, “When the pupil is ready the Master appears.” And this is true, in a sense; but not as you have interpreted it.

Your secret desire for a Master will bring him to you, but only when I have prepared you for such appearance. But such appearance will be only an appearance of a Master. The true Master or Teacher, when he appears, you may never recognize; for he may be hidden in an interesting friend, a business associate, your next door neighbor, or in your own wife or husband or child.

For I teach thru every avenue needed at the time to impress your human consciousness. And as I am continually teaching you, even when you do not know it. I have many ways of reaching your consciousness, and utilize all to bring you to a realization of My Meaning.

I speak with many voices, with the voice of Fear, Love, Envy, Kindness, Ambition, Drunkenness, Pleasure, Jealousy, Sensuality, Suffering, Shame,—with the voice of all human emotions, passions and desires. I speak with Nature’s voice, with the voice of Experience, even with the voice of human knowledge.

Yes, these are all My Voice, which I use Impersonally to express to you the one fact, that I AM in All and that I AM All; and what this Voice says, in Its thousand ways, is that you, too, are part of this All, and that I AM in you, waiting for your recognition of Me and your conscious cooperation in the expression of My Idea of Impersonal Perfection on earth, even as It is expressing in Heaven.

When this recognition comes, and then only, will you meet and know the true Master. Then and then only will you realize that I, your own Impersonal Self, AM the only possible Master of your human personality. Then you will understand why no being, human or otherwise, could be Impersonal and be a Master to any other being; why an Impersonal Being could never be known as a Master to a human being, and therefore could not have any interest in human affairs.

If a being should come into your life, who seemed to you Divine, and yet showed an interest in you, be sure he is not yet wholly Impersonal. Such an one might be a MasterMan, but he would not be Divine.

But perhaps you would be satisfied to have such an one for a Master, even if he were not wholly Impersonal. If so, then I would hereafter bring you to a realization of his personal imperfections by a constant comparison with My Impersonal Perfection; until you would finally turn and come to Me in complete abandon, acknowledging Me and My Impersonality as the only Model and Ideal, and as the true Cause which inspired your long search without for My Perfection, that could be found only within, hidden deep within your own Soul.